Maria was stuck, looking at the near-empty refrigerator when Rosa burst through their apartment door, her dark pigtails swinging and her large, brown eyes brightening upon seeing Maria. “Mama!” she exclaimed, “today we made VEGGIE friends!” Rosa proudly displayed the sock puppet on her left hand: an orange sock, with green squiggly ribbon for hair […]
Gardening Encouraged During the COVID-19 Pandemic — Cultivating Thoughts
Michelle Casella – Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County
Greenwood Ave. Farmers Market in Trenton Receives NJ Agricultural Society’s Philip Alampi Marketing Award
The team of founders, farmers, managers and Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Mercer County’s Family & Community Health Sciences (FCHS) SNAP-Ed nutrition educators were honored with the Philip Alampi Industry Marketing Award for their contributions to the success of Trenton’s Greenwood Ave. Farmers Market (GAFM). The award was bestowed on February 5 at the Agricultural Society […]
Greenwood Ave. Farmers Market receives NJ Agricultural award
Joan Healy; Michelle Brill – FCHS Rutgers Cooperative Extention
Hillsborough Volunteer Receives NJ 4-H Volunteer of the Year Award
Sue McCombie – Somerset County 4-H
Stories from Extension: How Magic Happened at Lindley G. Cook 4-H Camp
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is the state’s largest institution of higher education and its land-grant institution. Beyond the campus-based academics, there is a component of Rutgers that is solely dedicated to serving the needs of New Jersey residents through research and outreach. Known as the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES), and […]
New Jersey 4-H Members Attend National Photography Youth Summit
Three New Jersey 4-H members attended the National Photography Youth Summit held February 26-March 1 at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center located in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Nearly 50 youth from across the nation had an opportunity to learn and develop skills as they interacted with experts in the field of photography. During the summit, […]
Where will you plant veggies this year?
Stephen Komar – Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Sussex County
Attention Morristown Gardeners: Scarlet Sunrise Is New Jersey’s Newest Tomato
Tom Orton – Dept. of Plant Biology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension;
Pete Nitzsche – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers CUES Receives 2020 Honor Award
The Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES) led by Richard Alomar, associate director of the Office of Urban Extension and Engagement and associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Frank Gallagher, Environmental Planning Program Director and Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Landscape Architecture, received a 2020 Professional Honor Award […]
